CVE-2005-1992

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-06-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The XMLRPC server in utils.rb for the ruby library (libruby) 1.8 sets an invalid default value that prevents "security protection" using handlers, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

Affected products

Yukihiro Matsumoto Ruby: 1.8

References

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/5237
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=315064
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Sep/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/16920/
http://www.auscert.org.au/5509
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-312.shtml
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-748
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/684913
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-543.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14016
http://www2.ruby-lang.org/en/20050701.html

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